A distinct New Zealand landscape gives the programme its testing stage.
The Waimakariri Valley Test Site provides the test environment and control bunker for the Lance programme. It is distinct in function from the construction compound; the exact separation between the named sites is not established.
Selected passages from P.X: No Man’s Space.
Waimakariri Valley Test Site — Control Bunker — T-0:15 to test
Above, in the Waimakariri Valley, the Lance rose from the plains as humanity’s crucible—now designated Ellis’s Lance, a name that had caught fire among the crews after the climb at Thirty-Six. Two days remained before the asteroid crossed the point of no return. Everything had narrowed to this sixty-second window. Beyond it lay no revisions, only the bleak, terminal arithmetic of nuclear warheads.
Illustrative interpretations of the P.X settings.
3 artwork views.
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Waimakariri Valley Test Site · Planetary Location
A geographically isolated test region selected for beam discharge due to atmospheric stability and minimal population density.
The locals still call it quiet.
Silence makes room for consequences.
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